NFL Draft '14: Seth Cox grades the Arizona Cardinals' class

Welcome to the worst part of the NFL Draft process, more commonly known as grading each team's haul.

While fans and pundits use grades to establish whether or not a team did well in a draft, the truth is we can't know for sure for at least three seasons. With the Arizona Cardinals' 2014 NFL Draft, it could be even longer.

The Cardinals did some different things this year. Some people liked what they did, some people disliked what they did, but there is no denying it was interesting.

I love John Brown because he is a small-school prospect who is an undersized burner with massive upside, but is also the type that you would like to see picked on day three, or with an extra third-round pick acquired in an earlier trade.

Brown could be Cardinals' Mike Wallace, and Bruce Arians has a peculiar knack for finding undersized weapons.

There are plenty of players in the NFL who have a firm understanding of their role. There are also a lot of players who have an ego and believe they are capable of more and greater achievements, and thus can become distractions.

While I don't know Stinson personally, based on the work I have seen him put in at Alabama, he looks like he is the type that understands his duties as a five-technique defensive end.

Stinson was a rotation player at Alabama, and I can't find a single instance where he complained about it. He was a dominant force against the run, and looks to have the ability to come in and win a position right away.

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Husband, father, Editor in Chief and owner of TSHQ.co and roving draft analyst wherever people will have me. Nights are spent watching college kids in pads, taking notes and talking on Twitter.